Word: noon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this Friday there is no work. Around noon Thursday, a navy blue Dodge Aspen, No. 142 274, went by on its way down the jerky, rumbling assembly line as Dodge Main's last car. As it passed, small groups of instrument fitters, engine installers and wheel mounters cleaned up quietly and left. When the line finally came to a halt, nothing dramatic followed, no mass exodus, not even a final silence. Plant officials gathered around the blue Aspen for photographs, then drifted to the windows overlooking the Bismarck Gate to watch television crews clustered around departing workers, striving...
...entered the Spanish embassy in Guatemala City at 9:30 one morning last week, some were bearing machetes. Others, according to police accounts, were carrying pistols and Molotov cocktails. In short order, the embassy was peacefully occupied, and the Indians announced that they would hold a news conference at noon. In another part of the building were Spain's Ambassador Máximo Cajal y López, Guatemala's former Vice President Eduardo Caceres Lehnhoff and onetime Foreign Minister Adolfo Molina Orantes. They immediately ended their meeting to begin negotiations with the intruders. As government security forces...
...noon hour approached, the Indians prepared to broadcast a document protesting army repression and the detention of fellow campesinos in their home province. "We are going to read our grievances," said one. They never got the chance...
...tough military regime responded with an attack that by week's end was still sending shock waves throughout much of Latin America. Ignoring the fact-Iran notwithstanding-that embassies are "foreign soil," the government ordered police to begin an assault on the Spanish mission. It started shortly after noon, bringing the frantic Ambassador and the former Guatemalan officials to an upstairs window in protest. "Please don't enter!" pleaded the Ambassador. "We have immunity!" He was ignored...
...Wrestling vs. Penn, B.C., at the IAB, noon...